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Willem Drost (Biographical details)

Also known as

Drost, Willem

Biography

Painter and etcher; pupil of Rembrandt around 1650. Born in Amsterdam and died in Venice. His works are often extremely Rembrandtesque, including his earliest dated work, an etched Self-Portrait. He went to Italy in around 1655, and after a period in Rome he settled in Venice where he worked with Johann Carl Loth. A corpus of drawings is attached to his name (several of them are in the British Museum), although their attribution is not entirely secure.